Practical Jokes

Some times I like to pull practical jokes and lately, it has been my pleasure to be able to do this with customized ring tones on our phone system. It is one of the neatest things to be able to do to our phones. I have control of the ring tones and most of them are the normal ring tones and a few fun ones. But there have been so people that just needed specialized ring tones.

 

First there was mine and the “Payroll Bitches” ring tone. I was able to get the Wicked Witch of the West saying “I’ll Get You My Pretty, and Your Little Dog Too”. It’s great – it matches my personality. Along that same time I got our CFO an Elvis ring tone… he sings “I’m All Shook Up” whenever her phone rings. It gives her a smile – which never hurts with the CFO. She controls the money so keep her happy

 

It didn’t end there. I have this woman in the development department named Marci. Her given name is Marcia, but she hates it. Well, I was able to find Jan Brady saying “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia”. What makes this better, is that we got this onto her phone and we turned it ALL the way up. At first, she thought we were doing something to make her phone play that way. She had no idea that it was now her ring tone. She hated it at first, but the nice thing is… she has embraced it as something unique that she can really hear with the ring tone down lower.

 

I tried to get the Facilities Coordinator a new ring tone but he won’t go for it. Often, he saves the day around here, so I was able to get Mighty Mouse’s theme song. You know… “Here I come to save the day!!!!!” It’s perfect for him, but he wants us to record women talking sweet to him. Yeah, he sits next to me so that isn’t going to be happening anytime soon!

 

I also got Mork going Nanu, Nanu… but on one has selected that one.

Of course, when the PG got wind of this custom ring tones and he came up with someone harder for me to do. All these other ring tones were sort of already shortened for me. But no… he wanted a Disco ring tone. Specifically, “Boogie Wonderland”. So the search was one. First, the files really need to be wav files to make this easier. It’s insane to find this, but after about 20 minutes of searching I found a full length version of Boogie Wonderland (that was the real song singing, but not some stupid synthesizer) and then I had to edit it down to a ring of the length of about 4 to 7 seconds. I was able to pull it off and he enjoys it.

 

But now we’ll get to the real practical joke. That would be on Ms. Texas. Yep, my girl Texas who is so against the Steelers its unreal. She is Cowboys through and through. Well, she is on vacation this week and we were wondering what we could do to her. Everyone wanted to decorate her desk, because that’s what she does to us. But, that didn’t seem like it screamed out something we would do. Then I remembered that I wanted to make a Steelers ring tone. Well, it is now done. The ring tone starts out with the fans screaming “Here We Go Steelers” then a robot saying “The Pittsburgh Steelers” and ending with “And The Towels Are Up!”. It’s brilliant! It’s awesome. She is going to hate it. But I know others in this building will use the ring tone too, so I feel that I did something for everyone… not just for a practical joke.

 

And some days, this is what I have to remember. I can work somewhere where we pull jokes like this all the time. I work in a place where I have the power to control the ring tones and the hold music. I have some fun that can make the long days when I want to slap the PG silly. So, I know that I have a long day planned today, but I wanted to share the fun of my ring tones. Who knows what will be next. I will get a feeling someday and just will do it. Maybe I need to get a man recording the “breathless” women for the Facilities Coordinator. Now that would be a hoot!